The Works of John Ruskin

The sixth volume of the magisterial Library Edition (1903–1912) of the works of John Ruskin.

John Ruskin (Author), Edward Tyas Cook (Edited by), Alexander Wedderburn (Edited by)

9781108008549, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 18 February 2010

600 pages, 168 b/w illus.
23 x 15.5 x 3.5 cm, 0.93 kg

The influence of John Ruskin (1819–1900), both on his own time and on artistic and social developments in the twentieth century, cannot be over-stated. He changed Victorian perceptions of art, and was the main influence behind 'Gothic revival' architecture. As a social critic, he argued for the improvement of the condition of the poor, and against the increasing mechanisation of work in factories, which he believed was dull and soul-destroying. The thirty-nine volumes of the Library Edition of his works, published between 1903 and 1912, are themselves a remarkable achievement, in which his books and essays - almost all highly illustrated - are given a biographical and critical context in extended introductory essays and in the 'Minor Ruskiniana' - extracts from letters, articles and reminiscences both by and about Ruskin. This sixth volume contains Volume 4 of Modern Painters.

Introduction
Bibliographical note
Modern painters, Vol. IV: Preface
Part V. 'Of mountain beauty': 1. Of the Turnerian picturesque
2. Of Turnerian topography
3. Of Turnerian light
4. Of Turnerian mystery: as essential
5. Of Turnerian mystery: wilful
6. The firmament
7. The dry land
8. Of the materials of mountains: compact crystallines
9. Of the materials of mountains: slaty crystallines
10. Of the materials of mountains: slaty coherents
11. Of the materials of mountains: compact coherents
12. Of the sculpture of mountains: the lateral ranges
13. Of the scupture of mountains: the central peaks
14. Resulting forms: aiguilles
15. Resulting forms: crests
16. Resulting forms: precipices
17. Resulting forms: banks
18. Resulting forms: stones
19. The mountain gloom
20. The mountain glory
Appendix.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]